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The Subversive Nature of the Kingdom
This week we continue to hear what Jesus had to say about the kingdom of heaven (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12 [17]. Matthew...

Reverend Sue
Jul 26, 20236 min read


Wheat and Weeds
The parable of the wheat and the weeds is one of the many counter intuitive moments in Scripture that remind us God’s grace breaks into...

Reverend Sue
Jul 19, 20235 min read


Teaching in Parables
Jesus uses parables to reveal, to encourage, to challenge those open to the kingdom, and to confound those not in the right frame of mind...

Reverend Sue
Jul 12, 20234 min read


Sacrifice and Surrender
The story of Abraham and Isaac, sometimes called the Akedah or the binding of Isaac, is pivotal to the Jewish and Christian faiths. And...

Reverend Sue
Jun 28, 20235 min read


Who Belongs?
We have some very difficult and disturbing texts to grapple with this week leading us to reflect on who is family, tribe, group and who...

Reverend Sue
Jun 21, 20236 min read


God is to be found in Hospitality
God can be found in the providing of hospitality to strangers and in those times when we are open to the hospitality of others. (Third...

Reverend Sue
Jun 14, 20235 min read


Trinity - The Heart of God is Community
The Trinity is something we can get ourselves in a knot over. I have certainly wrestled with the idea and construction of the Trinity....

Reverend Sue
May 31, 20234 min read


Easter Day - Love has come again
Christ is risen, he is risen indeed. Alleluia! Today is such a joyous day and such a blessed relief. After the long slow build up of Lent...

Reverend Sue
Apr 5, 20234 min read


Lent Six - Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week and the time we hear of our Lord’s passion for us and remember the last week of his human life:...

Reverend Sue
Mar 29, 20234 min read


Lent One - The Wilderness Experience
Lent is a season of certainties and mysteries. The great certainty of God’s unending love for us expressed in the passion of Jesus for us...

Reverend Sue
Feb 22, 20235 min read


Ash Wednesday - A Meditation on Dust
From dust you came and to dust you shall return. A mediation on dust. (Ash Wednesday. Matthew 6:1-21: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17;...

Reverend Sue
Feb 20, 20232 min read


Transfiguration - Bringing the Light down the Mountain
When Peter saw Jesus transfigured into a being of light he wanted to build dwellings so that they could stay up the mountain....

Reverend Sue
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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